My life work has been to seek ways to liberate the mind and body from victim consciousness. I turned to my childhood study of ancient writings and books about ancient doctrines and noticed a common thread ran throughout these doctrines, whether they be philosophy, theology – with the Bible being the chief authority – and even in the beliefs of indigenous cultures, native american, or the Tao, or Hindu … in all of these run a theme, said in a multitude of ways, that teaches the same ancient principles of life. I use ten of these principles as a foundation for my work. They are the way out of victim consciousness. I present them as 10 laws or Guiding Principles Of Reality™. When we know these principles and integrate them into the way we respond to life, we build new mental pathways to Reality and peace. My driving question has been how to build those pathways effectively and quickly?” I’ve learned a lot.

Recently my search for more efficient tools brought me into the realm of neuroscience, where I not only found the evidence for the ancient principles I mention herein, but the explanation, in scientific terms, of exactly how the mind works physiologically! Why should it surprise me that neuroscience would show me how the 10 principles operate in the brain? OF COURSE, it was gonna happen sooner or later – but to be here on planet Earth during this exciting time of learning, not only about HOW to literally change our minds, but to be able to choose consciously what it is we want to base our new neural pathway upon. How wonderful to purposely habituate ourselves to see and respond to the world from a baseline of guiding principles of Reality. the best way to achieve the best results. Building a new neural pathway means to consciously ingrain a way of seeing life that creates in us an ‘attitude’ of thanksgiving. a mental program that becomes our default mental state when practiced. We are learning how to build a new evolving consciousness within our own minds.

I was motivated – inspired to cultivate more techniques for wiring the guiding principles of Reality into our brains so that they become our “go-to” mental attitude whenever we encounter life challenges. Rather than resort to old defensive posturing, and ways of protecting ourselves by striking out, we can build a mental pathway that sees a world where someone else’s misery is not personal – where we know we have a choice about what we think and believe and we consciously choose to see our situations through the eyes of a loving Reality.

Neuroscience presented me with concise, scientific understanding that triggered in me the outline of a step by step process for building healthier, peace-centered neural pathways. Last year a friend asked me to join his team to help them make transformational material, such as my own Reality Formula™, available to the world through the latest in technology concepts based on neuroscience. I said Yes, and have not looked back. Through my friend’s guidance, we have put together a step by step process in the form of an interactive program to be used on your iphone or android to help you build new neural pathways for peace.

Reality is what is. Reality has a structure that operates on certain laws, like, for instance, the law of gravity, that are undeniably what is, no matter the circumstances. There are basic principles of Reality that have been observed by the wise in every sect, culture, and part of the world, since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Reality principles govern how life energy operates on planet Earth; when we are unaware of them, we suffer, we feel at the mercy of a heartless, scary world, we feel like victims.

What follows is a synthesis of Reality principles that I’ve been studying and sharing with others for forty years. These principles were found, presented in various styles and traditions, in resources of all kinds, and tried and verified by my own efforts, in the laboratory that life offers us everyday. They come from ancient truths that have been passed down, from master to student in the beginning, and now more openly, to help us better understand the world energetically so we can co-create our desires (as we are designed to do) in alignment with the Living Intelligence that is our Source and manifest inner peace.

This is, by no means, an exhaustive list. The ten listed here provide, I hope, a basis of understanding how our world operates, both inner world, and outer world. (As above, so below – As within, so without) I share them because I consider them to be essential for helping us find the place of return to Reality, the only route to peace.

I believe the most effective way out of victim consciousness is to align with basic Reality principles such as these I list here.

Ten Reality principles (my latest revision)

1. We are thought emanations of Source, the One Mind, that thinks and speaks all things into being, and that breathes life into us, and supports our every need.

2. We are vibrational beings who attract and are attracted to people and situations of a similar vibrational frequency.

3. The One becomes three, a holy trinity, when it is divided in two, totally opposite, principles: the dark and the light, the masculine and the feminine.

4. Energy travels in spirals and operates in cycles, including within the human psyche, which energetically cycles through particular life themes to help us awaken and that spiritually refine us.

5. The world is a mirror that reflects the present state of our relationship with ourselves and those around us.

6. When we believe what we think, we automatically feel and act as if its true, and then we react in ways that prove us right.

7. Energy acts as a fertilizer; it increases and expands what we focus on. We direct our attention, by setting a conscious intention on what it is we want more of in life, and we withdraw our attention from what we don’t want more of in life.

8. We choose what we think and believe; when we begin to awaken to that Reality we become conscious participants in our life experience; we understand that what we believe determines the quality of our life.

9. We project our beliefs and unhappy story on to the world, and then react as if what we projected is true which elicits a response from the world that proves us right.

10. We align daily with the highest frequency possible, by setting our intention on Source. This allows us to detach from the unhappy beliefs that hold us prisoner to our own thinking (victim consciousness). Instead of blindly believing the unhappy stories we think, we step back into the witnessing self (observer consciousness), question these unhappy thoughts, and restore peace to an otherwise tortured mind.

Why not take one principle at a time and apply it with consciousness to the situations that come up in your day and see what happens? 😉

Here are some helpful tips for grounding and furthering your progress towards peace:

1. Start your day with a deliberate focus on aligning with Source.
a. Read something inspirational to set the tone, and go, as if to a secret meeting w/ your beloved, to a private space set up somewhere in your home just for this purpose. Light a candle, play music that soothes and invites you to breathe and relax.

c. Set your conscious intention to connect w/ Source through your body energetically and use visualization to see the energy of Source surrounding you and flowing into your body, streaming along the meridians and energy pathways, reaching every organ, every cell in your body.

2. Sign up for some kind of gentle yoga (yin yoga. restorative yoga, vinyasa (flow), or basic Iyengar are all good places to start), or a qigong/tai chi/akido/reiki class to learn ways to work in, and with, the body energetically I cannot emphasize enough the body’s role in freeing us from victim consciousness. It facilitates powerful healing.

a. Is it true?
b. Do you know it absolutely?
c. Who are you when you believe that thought?
d. What would be different w/out that thought?

And use her Turn Arounds too, by taking the original thought that you are questioning and turn it around to its opposite and look for evidence to support that perspective.

5. Work with those four questions as you move through your day. They will help you tap into observer consciousness so that you are less reactive and resistant to life. Look for any little unhappy thought and practice turning it into its opposite to find a more peaceful way of seeing.

6. Learn and meditate on the basic guiding principles. Practice seeing the world through them. For instance, when you hear yourself thinking that something should, or shouldn’t, be the way it is, remind yourself of the principle that teaches us there are no mistakes; things are the way they are for a reason and that reason is for our benefit; focus on seeking that growth enhancing reason, rather than railing against the way things are. Observer consciousness is based on seeing life through universal guiding principles of life.

7. Pay attention to your feelings, especially to the ones that prompt you to react negatively, for they are like fingers pointing to the troublesome thought inside your mind, the real cause of your distress.

8. Suspect your way of seeing things anytime your perception of a situation generates unhappiness. Explore your mindset carefully and question the negative beliefs, one at a time, that surface in your mind – don’t quit until you’ve adjusted your way of seeing things to align with reality, recognizable by its high frequency. You know you have returned to reality when you feel grounded and centered, serene and connected – at peace. Reality is the here and now peace of this moment. Use this work to anchor you in reality.

I trust that any of the above mentioned suggestions you choose to follow will bring positive results – your pace and progress is a personal thing. Trust your rhythm.

There are basic universal principles that define Reality. Wise men of every generation have observed these universal principles at work in the natural world. Certain of these guiding principles are the very foundation upon which the Reality Formula™ is based.

For instance, we know that Reality is a medium that supports life, in the same way that water is a medium that supports aquatic life. We know from our wisdom teachers that this medium of Reality is made -up of what we call “energy.” Alchemists say that all life is made of the same one substance. Therefore we know that every thing, all forms of life, seen and unseen, are made of this same universal substance, energy. Reality is energy manifested.

We see the workings of the energy principles that operate Reality on every level, and in every arena, of our lives; whatever the expression of energy may be, whether it’s a human body or a mountain, the ocean or an animal, furniture or rain – no matter what form energy takes, it will act according to the principles that govern it.

For instance, one of the principles we observe regarding the nature of energy, no matter it’s form, is that it does not go away, it merely changes form, like when you drop salt crystals into warm water: the crystals disappear, but if you dip your finger in the remaining water, you will taste the evidence of the salt still very much present. Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist! All form simply changes form – (yes, this includes YOU too!)photo credit: Ian Sane

Iron turns to rust, bodies to dust, ice to water, grain to fodder,

All life goes through the death/birth cycle.

Egg to infant, seed to plant, bud to flower, harvest to sower,

All life is renewed in this ongoing cycle.

When we learn and observe guiding principles in our life, we have the chance to align with Reality through them, so that we can experience the joy, peace, and kindness of Reality. We can choose to use universal principles that govern energy, nature, and physics to guide our own lives:

Here’s an example of a principal about how energy moves that can be observed on many levels of Reality, including our own inner workings.

First, here’s the principle: ‘what we resist, persists.’ In other words, the harder we push at something, the harder it pushes back. These words reflect Newton’s third law of motion, (his summation of this particular guiding principle), which is: “for every force there is an equal and opposite force.”

We observe this principle of Reality at work in the medium of water as follows:

Imagine you are standing in a swimming pool with water up to your shoulders. You suddenly see something you want on the other side of the pool and so you start trying to move fast through the water to get to it. What happens? The faster we try to go, the harder it gets to move ahead, right? The harder you try to push the water aside, the harder it is to move. This is the Reality of life – the more we try to force life, the more resistance we meet.

Like when you’re running late and trying to get to your appointment fast by racing across town … what happens? Traffic lights go red as you approach, cars pull out in front of you, old ladies limp across the street in front of you, etc. right?! When we try to push life, life pushes back. It’s the law of Reality in motion!

Or, like when you don’t like something your loved one is doing so you confront them angrily and then they respond to your resistance with defiance and anger. The same principle applies – what we resist, persists – every time.

Because the mind is made of energy, (it and all its components, such as thoughts, beliefs, feelings), we know that it operates by the same universal laws that govern energy on the physical level, and on the mental/emotional level. By studying external manifestations of energy at work in nature we get better at seeing how those same governing principles that apply in nature are also at work within the medium of our own minds. photo credit: ttarasiuk

This allows us not only to understand the workings of the world, but of our own mind, as well. Through that understanding we learn how to cooperate with certain basic guiding principles (such as those I rely on for daily peace) to achieve a life with less resistance, and more effortless doing.

When we speak of Reality, we refer to “life-in-the-happening,” and when we observe life happening (as our greatest teachers and Christ did) we notice the presence of basic, consistent, principles that are ever present in the process of life – certain laws of manifestation that define the nature of reality. They are the governing laws that form the backbone, foundation, and structure of reality. They are the undergirding of reality that operate it on all levels.

And they are taught in some form or another in every major philosophy, theology, and cosmology, because they form the structure of all life. A very simple example of what we mean is the principle that underlies our knowing that if I hold a ball in my hand and I release that ball from my hand, it will fall to the ground. We say that the law of gravity is in operation, and we count on it as simply being the way it is. We orient our whole life around the principle that what goes up must come down. If is not a belief system, as much as it is an observable fact. It is reality. We do not question it, and it matters not whether we believe in it or not, it is what is – what goes up will come down.

Reality has a set of similar laws that sages and wisdom seekers have been observing to us for thousands of years. Such basic guiding principles, or laws, were ascertained from their oft-repeated observations of life and nature (including human nature). They observed that these principles are at work on every level of life, including in the way our very own psyche works, even to the structure of the mind!

Let’s look at the difference between reality and a belief about reality as we examine the statement, “There are no coincidences, mistakes, accidents…” On the surface, this statement sounds like it is a belief, rather than reality, but let’s examine it more closely.

The preceding statement is simply a reflection of the law of cause and effect that says nothing happens by happenstance or in a vacuum. There is always a preceding cause for every thing that happens – there are no coincidences. (see The Kybalion regarding the universal laws of manifestation at http://www.kybalion.org/) What we experience in life today was preceded by yesterdays causes. There are no ‘accidents.’

To further expand my meaning, let’s look at this law on the level of our own thinking; the law suggests that what we will experience tomorrow is being determined today by the choices we are making now. Or another way of saying it is that the choices we make in this moment are determined by the thoughts we presently think and believe. It does not matter whether we believe that statement or not, it is the way reality is … it is one of the ways that the law of cause and effect works in reality.

It works like this: whatever beliefs we line up with will be what we attract, and are attracted to in life. For instance, if we believe the world is dangerous or that people cannot be trusted, that will be our experience of reality. We can observe our beliefs-in-action in our lives and therefore know that what we experience in our lives does not come to be there ‘by accident.’

With such a fear-based belief as “the world is dangerous,” we would automatically feel the feelings that go with that belief system. We might feel paranoid, and afraid of people. (Remember feelings come from thoughts/beliefs), as a result we might react (often in negative ways) out of those feelings, often unconsciously.

We might for example avoid people and situations, or react defensively when there’s no need, or see attack where there is none, etc. When we act out of the feelings that come from deeply held fear-based beliefs, we invite a negative reaction from those we interact with that we then use as validation of our original belief.

If, for instance, I believe you’re not a safe person, I might avoid you, or react defensively with you, which then may prompt you to respond to me in a less-than-friendly, perhaps even offensive way, which I can then use as validation that reinforces my belief that you are dangerous. My belief about you sets the stage for my experience with you, my thoughts/beliefs are the cause and your reactions towards me are the predictable effect. This is what we mean when we say there are no coincidences – we are observing the law of cause and effect. There is no accident to it! The choices we make, the stories we believe, show up in the situations we face in life. There are no mistakes.

When we learn to observe reality and we come to know the guiding principles that operate in reality, we begin to recognize and question our thoughts and our beliefs ABOUT reality so we can attract a happier future.

I am not saying life is predestined … meaning already mapped out, like we are puppets on a string, it’s not that sort of thing. No, but I am saying that we are the ones who determine the quality of our tomorrows, I guess you could say, we ‘predetermine’ our future by the beliefs we carry and project out onto the world around us, and those in it.

BUT, we can choose the freedom and peace that comes when we apply certain basic guiding principles that align us with Reality and Source and allows us to experience a life wonderfully different than anything we’ve known before.

Rather than a life governed by our mind-made beliefs, we instead study and learn to apply certain basic laws of reality. We look for these guiding principles in all of our life situations and use them to anchor us in reality, rather than to go on believing our painful life stories. We can choose to believe in these principles or not, they work whether or not we believe them, but when we align with them we come to know them as the universal laws that set us free!